Three CU football opponents ranked highly

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Tom Kensler
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May 10, 2011 @ 11:34 am
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I just returned from the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival (Sonny Rolllins, Irma Thomas, Marcia Ball, Henry Butler and Willie Nelson were among the highlights), and you know you’re in the Deep South when you see a local newspaper top its sports section in early May with a college football post-spring national top 25 list.

While acknowledging that he will put out another preseason top 25 after August drills, New Orleans Times-Picayune writer Ted Lewis ranked LSU as his current preseason No. 1, followed in order by Alabama and Oklahoma.

Three 2011 Colorado opponents made his top 12: Oregon (4), Stanford (9) and Arizona State (12). No other Pac-12 schools made Lewis’ top 25.

Oregon (Oct. 22) comes to Folsom Field. The Buffaloes play at Stanford (Oct. 8 ) and at ASU (Oct. 29).

Big Ten-bound Nebraska is No. 16.

In addition to Oklahoma, other Big 12 schools making Lewis’ list are Oklahoma State (5), Texas A&M (14) and Texas (17).